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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México City, Distrito Federal, Mexico, America

Museo Virtual Patrimonio Cultural Universitario (VMUCH)
Virtual museum of the University's Cultural Heritage (VMUCH)

Museum or Collection Type:
Cultural History & Art
Institutional Type:
Museum

Contact:
Francisco Caviedes
museovirtualunam@yahoo.com.mx
francisco.caviedes@ccadet.unam.mx
Phone: +52 (00) 52 562200305

Additional information:
Museum is to be launched in 2011. See Additional Information here: http://anuario.upn.mx/index.php/noticias-educativas/2011/648-plaza-juarez/27159-unam-prepara-museo-virtual-del-patrimonio-universitario-.html

Links:
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Description:
The Virtual Museum of the University's Cultural Heritage (VMUCH) is a dynamic interactive space, in which users navigate and interact with UNAM's cultural, scientific and historical heritage. The VMUCH integrates two separated systems: a Web Site based interactive community and a non immersible 3D real-time system. This system combination produces a virtual museum in which the whole of the UNAM's vast cultural heritage can be displayed in a coherent and creative way. By creating expositions ranging from the official, professional curatorial based exhibits, virtual reproduction of actual museums, to the user-constructed visions, VMUCH will become a community devoted to the exploration of 3D environments in the art appropriation and displaying process.